Figure Skating Fiction Classics from Private Ice

Classic Figure Skating Ficiton

Rink Rat Rumors remains a popular young-adult figure skating story. The authentic feel of youth and sophistication beyond it's teenage author's tender years make it a figure skating classic.

Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates, by Mary Mapse Dodge, is the first known work of figure skating fiction, now a public domain figure skating classic. Root for Hans Brinker and his darling sister and Gretel as they strive to rise from poverty and follow Hilda and Peter as they skate across Holland.

From its debut, Phantoms thrilled and delighted figure skating fiction readers and drew fans from Phanfic, fiction related to Phantom of the Opera. Phantoms won awards from Episodic Review in 2000 including Best Male Lead and a readers' choice award.

Phantoms is unfinished--but you can always email RinkGhost and beg...

Flying bears the distinction of being the only modern figure skating classic actually written by an elite figure skater. Natalya Alexandrovna was a pseudonym for a 14-year-old Junior from the Pacific section.

Natalya retired from figure skating due to injury in 2001.

Figure Skaters—Elena Grushina and Ruslan Goncharov

Figure Skating Facts, history, and trivia about the people, places and personalities that makes figure skating so cool.

Some complain that rankings in ice dancing take a very long time to change. Couples that stick around many years, however, may eventually find their way to the podium. Ukrainians Elena Grushina and Ruslan Goncharov are such a team.

The two began skating together in 1990 when her partner went off to school and his had health problems. They placed fourth at the World Juniors in 1992 and won their first nationals at the senior level in 1999. They married in 1995.

Grushina and Goncharov were in the top ten at the Europeans each year from 1999-2003. They won a bronze in 2004 and a silver in 2005. They achieved their first medal at the World Championships in 2005 with a third-place finish after six previous seasons in the top ten.

Grushina and Goncharov have trained in the United States since their home rink closed after the 1996-97 season. Nikolai Morozov serves as both their coach and choreographer. Previous coaches include Tatiana Tarasova, Natalia Linichuk, and Gennadi Karponosov.

The duo made their first trip to the Olympics in 1998 and placed in the top ten at the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City. Their free dance for the 2006 Olympic season is to Peter Gabriel's "The Feeling Begins."

—Beth Braccio Hering

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Classic Figure Skating Ficiton

Figure Skaters—Elena Grushina and Ruslan Goncharov